Re: [K12OSN] K12LTSP user in kiosk mode

[Alan A Hodson <ahodson elp rr com>]

Dave
Have you considered running a couple of old PCs with Knoppix? I don't 
think you need a Hard Drive, just a CD than can boot (via BIOS)- If 
the searchers find something worth keeping they can't save or print 
but at least they can email the info to themselves...
Cheers
Alan Hodson
El Paso ISD, TX
-=o=-


> Ok,
>
> Here's what I have and what I wanna do.  I have a K12LTSP server that
> serves my school....it's a beast.  It authenticates via Samba/LDAP to
> another box that houses the home dirs and so forth...exported via
> NFS....works great.  My school librarian would like a couple of terminals
> to act as kiosks in the library.  We want them to log in automatically (as
> a generic user...say....library1 and library2) and do nothing except
> basically serve the web and maybe an app or two...with no capability to
> save to /home.  Our card catalog is web based....so really we're just
> looking for electronic card catalogs....I'd like to be able to do it with
> my existing set up.....any ideas?
>
> David N. Trask